Young Iraqis of both sects obeyed the imams' ruling last week by rushing to conscription offices in hot, dirty, dusty Bagdad to offer themselves or their money for the jihad.

1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, page 26:

Small groups of killers, the scent of blood in their nostrils, now fanned out by taxi, bicycle or even on horseback into the surrounding countryside, spreading the word that a general jihad, or ‘holy war’, had broken out.

2013 May 8, Mona Mahmood & Ian Black, The Guardian:

The Jabhat al-Nusra media, with songs about jihad and martyrdom, is extremely influential.